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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
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PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument as, He presided at the piccolo.
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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
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LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
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BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
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There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself whereas he is a fool then only.
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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
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K, n. A consonant originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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Strive not for singularity in dress Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
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